"Aowu~~" The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path clutched its head and roared, its nine eyes wide open, filled with bloodshot veins, its Chakra surged, and the surroundings were filled with flying sand and rocks.
"Be careful!" Nine Tails warned, "It looks like the Ten Tails is about to revive. Even if it hasn't collected all the Tailed Beast Chakra, that guy's power is not to be trifled with."
Naruto put his hands together, entering Sage Mode while maintaining his Tailed Beast transformation. The vertical fox pupils in his eyes overlapped with the horizontal frog pupils, commonly known as the cross eyes or Sage Fox Mode.
Nine Tails asked, "Naruto, what are you going to do?"
Naruto was already forming a Tailed Beast Ball: "Of course, I'm going to give him one. No one said we have to wait for the enemy to finish transforming before we start fighting, right?"
"That's true, but that guy's Rinnegan can absorb the Tailed Beast Ball, right?" Nine Tails had just seen Obito absorb even Amaterasu.
"That's why I'm going to add Sage Mode into the Tailed Beast Ball. It won't hurt to try," Naruto said matter-of-factly. "Don't just watch, lend a hand. Let's give him a big one."
Hearing Naruto's complaint, Nine Tails angrily said, "Haven't I been helping from the start!"
"Really? No wonder the speed of collecting Natural Energy is so fast, haha!" Naruto chuckled. "I thought there was a special bonus in this state."
Nine Tails sighed, not bothering to argue with an idiot: "Alright, that's enough, fire!"
"Sage Art: Tailed Beast Ball!"
A Tailed Beast Ball larger than Nine Tails' fox head flew out, hitting the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path directly in the chest.
"Boom!"
The Tailed Beast Ball exploded, and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path was knocked backward onto the ground by the attack. The dazzling white light obscured the figure of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
"Did it work?" Kakashi and Zuo Zhu, who were observing in the dark, broke out in cold sweats.
"Useless!" The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path's transformation did not stop. Obito had the statue block the damage for him, and he only came out to gloat after the explosion subsided. "Watch closely, this is the beginning of the end of the world!"
As if responding to Obito's words, the Ten Tails let out a roar, its transformation complete.
Ten tails waved behind it. The main body looked like a hermit crab in a conch shell, or like a bamboo shoot. A Rinne Sharingan in the middle was eye-catching, and a large mouth full of sharp teeth was below the eye.
Obito jumped on top of the Ten Tails' eye, which was probably the head. A tube extended from the Ten Tails' head and connected to the back of Obito's neck.
Black Zetsu stood beside Obito, half a step behind, acting as a quiet ornament.
Roughly estimated, the height of the Ten Tails was nearly ten times that of Nine Tails.
"Hahahaha!" Feeling the connection between himself and the Ten Tails, Obito tore off his mask and laughed wildly, looking up to the sky. "Come, feel the power of the Ten Tails! Despair!"
Whether it was Naruto and Kushina in Tailed Beast form, or Shisui and Itachi with their Susanoo activated, even Minato, who had been looking for an opportunity to deal with Obito, had solemn expressions, as if facing a great enemy.
This was the legendary monster. In Nine Tails' description, this guy could drink the sea, split the earth, and move mountains without any effort. It was a monster that could truly destroy the world.
Especially under the Sage Mode's perception, Naruto felt that what was in front of him was not a small mountain, but an entire continent!
"Although I expected it, this is too exaggerated." Minato, who had also entered Sage Mode, had a drop of cold sweat on his forehead. He took a deep breath, and even so, he couldn't give up. He immediately stared at the Ten Tails' eye and the tube connecting the Ten Tails and Obito. If such a guy had a weakness, it should be these two places, right?
Looking at everyone's expressions, Obito was very satisfied. With a smile on his face, he waved his hand and ordered the Ten Tails to attack. Everyone held their breath, preparing to respond.
Ten seconds passed, and the Ten Tails didn't move.
Naruto and the others looked puzzled.
Obito's expression froze on his face. Was my gesture to issue the order wrong?
Even Black Zetsu was utterly bewildered. Was this guy going to drop the ball at this crucial moment?
"Haa!" Obito joined his sword fingers, glared with his Rinnegan, mobilized his Chakra, and communicated with the Ten Tails again.
This time, the Ten Tails finally responded, its legs exerting force to slightly prop up its massive body, and it rumbled forward.
Obito's lips curled up. Just now, the Ten Tails probably wasn't fully awake. Fortunately, everything was under control!
Watching the menacing Ten Tails, Shisui and Itachi's two Susanoo stood ready, Naruto and Kushina's two Nine Tails were poised to strike, Kakashi and Zuo Zhu behind the Ten Tails advanced, and Minato was ready to save the day at any moment.
The Ten Tails strode forward, accompanied by the Second Tsuchikage's uncontrollable smile and Black Zetsu's anticipation, when suddenly it stepped on air. Its large face made intimate contact with the ground, smashing out a pit of unknown depth. The ten large tails behind it spread limply on the ground as if they had lost their strength.
Obito: ...
Black Zetsu: ...
Everyone else: ...
"A... a face-plant on flat ground?" Naruto was a little dumbfounded. What was going on? He didn't remember the Ten Tails having this attribute. "Big Fox, does he have the same hobby of acting cute as you?"
Naruto was reminded of the Nine Tails' little clones, who would wander Konoha when they had nothing to do, making a living by acting cute, freeloading.
The Nine Tails nodded subconsciously, then roared, "How could I have such a hobby!? I wouldn't act cute either!"
Shisui, with his better eyesight, reminded, "Its legs are not right. The Chakra distribution is very uneven. Some places are like... um, underdeveloped?"
Shisui thought for a while before finding such a suitable adjective.
"What exactly is going on?" Obito shouted at Black Zetsu in frustration. He was just about to act cool and slap faces when it face-planted on flat ground?
Black Zetsu said helplessly, "I don't know either. Maybe it's because the power within the Ten Tails is unbalanced, or maybe it's because you only have one Rinnegan and can't fully control it."
As he spoke, the Ten Tails struggled to get up, shaking its head in confusion, seemingly unaware of what had happened.
Logically speaking, the Ten Tails is like the earth, soil, and ocean, belonging to nature itself, and should not have emotions. However, in its large nine-tomoe Rinne Sharingan, a look of confusion was clearly revealed.
"Thump!" A huge heartbeat came from within the Ten Tails, and a huge bulge appeared on its back, which then evolved into a cat's head. On closer inspection, it was the Two Tails, Matatabi!
"Thump!" "Thump!" "Thump!"
Three more consecutive heartbeats, and three more bulges appeared on the Ten Tails' back, which turned into the forms of the Four Tails, Five Tails, and Eight Tails respectively.
At the same time, a painful expression appeared on the Ten Tails' face. It roared, trying to make the four Tailed Beast heads shrink back, but the four heads struggled to drill outwards.
Seeing this, Naruto understood that it was probably because the Ten Tails only had four complete Tailed Beasts within it, and the rest were all replaced with Chakra, resulting in the Chakra not being balanced!
So, is a tense and exciting tug-of-war about to begin?
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